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Joy has an extensive art collection of her admired famous international and local artists, and her collection is on display in her home. "You can hardly see the walls," she says. Busy as her life is, Joy has taken many classes at the Columbus College of Art and Design . Her favorite medium is graphite pencil on paper. Joy is never without her camera, as she takes pride in the original art she creates from her own photographs, and a sketchbook is always within reach.
Joy puts her passion and experience to work. After receiving a Friendship of Education Award for an art project in 2000, she became a Docent of the Columbus Museum of Art. As a Board Member of the Worthington Arts Council, she created an "Art in Poetry" workshop for elementary school aged children. The children worked on creative poetry writing enlivened with their own watercolor decoration and illustration.
One of Joy's favorite works of art at the Columbus Museum of Art
is Pierre August Renoir's "Christine Lerolle Emroidering" because, she says, Renoir's palette is technical and beautiful. Another favorite is Henry Moore's "Three Piece Reclining Figure" for its serenity and softness of the figure. Both of these works of art aptly reflect much of her own character: intelligent, artistic, creative, graceful, powerful and quietly forced.
Joy's Favorite Artists
August Renoir's "Christine Lerolle Embroidering"
Henry Moore's "Three Piece Reclining Figure"